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For the first time ever, global temperatures are now more likely than not to breach 1.5 deg C of warming within the next five years, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Wednesday (May 17). This does not mean the world would cross the long-term warming threshold of 1.5 deg C above pre-industrial levels set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement. But a year of warming at 1.5 deg C could offer a glimpse of what crossing that longer term threshold, based on the 30-year global average, would be like. With a 66 per cent chance of temporarily reaching 1.5...